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DESCRIPTION: '\n\n\n You're just complaining because you're guilty: A D
EF CON Guide to\n Adversarial Testing of Software Used In the Criminal J
ustice System\n\n Saturday at 10:00 in Track 2\n 45 minutes | Demo\n\n
Dr. Jeanna N. Matthews: Associate Professor\, Clarkson University and\n
Fellow\, Data and Society\n\n Nathan Adams Systems Engineer\, Forensi
c Bioinformatic Services\n\n Jerome Greco Digital Forensics Staff Attorn
ey\, Legal Aid Society\n\n Software is increasingly used to make huge de
cisions about people's\n lives and often these decisions are made with l
ittle transparency or\n accountability to individuals. If there is any p
lace where\n transparency\, third-party review\, adversarial testing and
true\n accountability is essential\, it is the criminal justice system.
\n Nevertheless\, proprietary software is used throughout the system\, a
nd\n the trade secrets of software vendors are regularly deemed more\n
important than the rights of the accused to understand and challenge\n
decisions made by these complex systems. In this talk\, we will lay out\n
the map of software in this space from DNA testing to facial\n recogni
tion to estimating the likelihood that someone will commit a\n future cr
ime. We will detail the substantial hurdles that prevent\n oversight and
stunning examples of real problems found when hard won\n third-party re
view is finally achieved. Finally\, we will outline what\n you as a conc
erned citizen/hacker can do. Nathan Adams will demo his\n findings from
reviewing NYC's FST source code\, which was finally made\n public by a f
ederal judge after years of the city's lab fighting\n disclosure or even
review. Jerome Greco will provide his insight into\n the wider world of
software used in the criminal justice system—from\n technology that law
enforcement admits to using but expects the public\n to trust without q
uestion to technology that law enforcement denies\n when the evidence sa
ys otherwise. Jeanna Matthews will talk about the\n wider space of algor
ithmic accountability and transparency and why\n even open source softwa
re is not enough.\n\n Dr. Jeanna N. Matthews:\n Dr. Matthews is an ass
ociate professor of Computer Science at Clarkson\n University and a 2017
-18 fellow at Data and Society. She is member of\n the Executive Committ
ee of US-ACM\, the U.S. Public Policy Committee of\n ACM and a founding
co-chair of their subcommittee on algorithmic\n transparency and account
ability. She was a speaker and DEF CON 23 and\n 24\, both times on the t
opic of vulnerabilities in virtual networks.\n Her broader research inte
rests include virtualization\, cloud\n computing\, computer security\, c
omputer networks and operating systems.\n Jeanna received her Ph.D. in C
omputer Science from the University of\n California at Berkeley and is a
n ACM Distinguished Speaker.\n\n @jeanna_matthews\n\n Nathan Adams\n
Nathan Adams works as a Systems Engineer in Ohio at the forensic DNA\n
consulting firm Forensic Bioinformatic Services. He reviews DNA\n analys
es performed in criminal cases in the US\, the UK\, and Australia.\n His
focus includes DNA mixture interpretation\, statistical weightings\n of
evidence\, probabilistic genotyping\, and software development. When\n
its disclosure was ordered by a federal judge in 2016\, Nathan was part\n
of the first team to independently examine FST\, NYC's DNA mixture\n i
nterpretation program. He helped identify and evaluate previously\n undi
sclosed behaviors of the software. Following the team's review and\n a m
otion filed by Yale's Media Freedom center and ProPublica\, the\n judge
recently ordered the release of the FST source code\, which\n allowed op
en discourse for the first time since FST was brought online\n in 2011.
He has a BS in Computer Science and is working on an MS in\n the same\,
both at Wright State University in Dayton\, Ohio.\n\n Jerome Greco\n J
erome Greco is a public defender in the Digital Forensics Unit of the\n
Legal Aid Society in New York City. Along with four analysts\, he works\n
with attorneys and investigators in all five boroughs on issues\n invo
lving historical cell-site location information\, cell phone\n extractio
n\, electronic surveillance technology\, social media\, and hard\n drive
analysis\, among other fields. He is currently engaged in\n challenging
the NYPD's use of cell-site simulators\, facial\n recognition\, and the
execution of overbroad search warrants for\n electronic devices. Prior
to his work with the Digital Forensics Unit\,\n he was a trial attorney
in the Legal Aid Society's Manhattan and\n Staten Island criminal defens
e offices. He graduated magna cum laude\n from New York Law School in 20
11 and received his B.A. from Columbia\n University in 2008.\n\n @Jero
meDGreco\n\n '\n\n
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LOCATION:DEFCON - Track 2
SUMMARY:You're just complaining because you're guilty: A DEF CON Guide to A
dversarial Testing of Software Used In the Criminal Justice System
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